Method of spinning cotton or other fibers.



Patented Nbv. 26, 1901. W. A. PHILLIPS.

METHOD OF SPINNING COTTON OR OTHER FIBERS.

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-No. 687,573. Patented Nov. 26, I90l.

W. A. PHILLIPS. METHOD OF SPINNING COTTON OR OTHER FIBERS.

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METHOD 0F SPINNING COTTON 0R DTHEB FIBERS.

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UNITED?! STATES P TENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. PHILLIPS, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE NEW CENTURY FINANCE COMPANY,

ENGLAND.

LIMITED, OF ADELPHI, LONDON,

METHOD OF SPINNING COTTON OR OTHER FIBERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 687,57 3, dated November 26, 1901.

Original application filed February 21, 1901, Serial No. 48,355. Divided and this application filed July 18, 1901. Serial No.'es,s34.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, WILLIAM ALFRED PHIL- LIPS, a'citizen of England, residing, at 12 Euston Buildings, Euston Square, London, England, have invented a certain new and useful Method of Spinning Cotton-or other Fibers, (for which I have applied for a patent in Great Britain, dated July 25, 1900, No. 13,402; in France, dated March 15, 1901; in Germany, dated March 15, 1901, and in Belgium, dated March 20, 1901,) of which the following is a specification.

The present invention, which was originally included in the application filed February 21, 1901, Serial No. 48,355, of which this is a divisional application, relates to a method of spinning cotton and other fibers by means of a spinning instrument or spinner of a novel kind operating on a novel principle. In order that this may be better understood, I-

shall describe a spinning-machine in which a number of these spinners with appropriate feed and draw rollers and bobbins are arranged in a row and worked through suitable drivinggear.

Figure 1 is a transverse section of the maing-rails shown in section.

the row of spinners. Fig. 7 is a vertical section of the spinner and its supporting-tube. Fig. 8 shows an enlarged side elevation of the spinner with the upper part separate from the lower part. Fig. 9 is a plan of the upper part of the spinner looking from below. Figs.

10, 11, and 12 are elevation and sections ofthe head, showing the action.

The spinner itself comprises a tube a, the

lower end of which is connected by a flexible pipe b to a vessel in which a partial vacuum is maintained by an air-pump. The tube has on it a driving-pulley c and is journaled in suitable bearings in rails d c. On the top of the tube is a hollow head, into which air is drawn through a number of small apertures or slits .f, which terminate against a project- Fig. 2 is a part plan, and Fig. 3 is a part front elevation at one end of the Ina- Fig. 4 is an elevation of one of the spinners with its draw-rollers and support-{ Fig. 5 is an 616-! vation, and Fig. 6 is a plan, showing two of (N0 model!) ing shoulderg and are situated just under an annular rib, through which there is a vertical slit h near the termination of the slits. Behind the spinner are several pairs of feed and draw rollers j, which are loaded and driven at suitable speeds, as in an ordinary spinning-frame, and toward one side of the spinner, between it and the nearest pair of rollers, is mounted a guide-pulley 71; on a spindle having a driving-pulley Z. A number of spinners are mounted in a row and have their pulleys a driven by separate bands from a cylinder m, while the pulleys Z are driven by a continuous baud pressed against them by intermediate guide-pulleys, the band passing over guide-pulleys n from a pulley 0 on a shaft 19. This shaft 19 is driven by worm and bevel gear g from the shaft of the cylinder m, and it has on it a pulley '1", which by means of bands drives the pulleys on the spindles of bobbins s, and has also on it cams which move up and down the traversing guide-eyes 25.

Cotton or other rovings of fiber taken from the tubes to over a guide-roller w are passed through between the rollers j and led on the one side of each of the guide-pulleys it up to the rapidly-revolving spinners, to which the end fibers" of the roving are drawn by the suction through the slits f. Threads being once started and led through the slits h, through stationary guide-eyes '0 above the spinners, and through the traversing guideeyes i to the bobbins s, which are revolving, threads are continuously spun from the ends of the rovings and are wound on the bobbins s.

The operation of the spinner may be described as follows, with reference particularly to Figs. 8 to 12, inclusive: When the upper part of the spinner is placed upon'the lower part, with the slit 7t in line with the right edge or shoulder of the projection g on the lower part, the upper part is held in that position by the pressure of the atmosphere, there being a vacuum within the spinner; but it might have a pin entering a hole in the lower part the operator draws a thread X from the bobbin and introduces it into the slit 7:, over the fibers lying there, this thread ending at the lower side of the projection g. On now causing the spinner to revolve the fibers are wound on the thread and drawn up with it through the slit, being spun as they ascend, while fresh fibers are at every revolution of the spinner drawn onto it to join with and to become spun continuously with the fiber already spun, Figs. 11 and 12. Should the thread that is being spun happen to break, it is'only necessary to pull it down and insert its lower part into the slit h in order to have fresh fibers connected to it and so as to continue the thread.

- Although the serrated part,which forms the inlet for air to the interior of the spinner, extends over only a small part of the circumference, the fibers which had been drawn onto the serrations,having their front ends already connected to the thread that is being spun, are drawn farther out from the roving as the spinner revolves by being wound on the part which is not serrated and are finally drawn quite away to form part of the thread, fresh sets of fibers continually taking their place. Although I have shown on the drawings only several spinners and their accessories, it is obvious that the frame and gearing may be extended to accommodate any number that can be conveniently Worked together.

Having thus described the nature of this in- DGSSGS.

W. A. PHILLIPS. Witnesses: I

OLIVER IMRAY, GERALD L. SMITH. 

